Hunting Pixels

We’ve been away from each other for a while. I think it’s been almost three weeks since we’ve all gathered for the show and as such, it’s time for our favorite type of episode, the catch up episode. So this week we’ll just be talking about the media we’ve consumed and the games that we’ve played. All of that and your regularly scheduled picks of the week. Media Discussed: Quantum Of Solace Venom L...

This past week we got a Nintendo direct for the first time since June which also happened to be the E3 show. We got a lot of information on a ton of really great looking games and we decided to talk about that and what the next several months of Nintendo look like! We’ll go through everything that happened in the show and give you our thoughts on it! As always you can find us on social media for a...

As is clearly evidenced here on this very show by our opening segment, We like more than just video games. I am the big movie guy, especially horror movies as this episode has no doubt spelled out for you. The anime king himself, Austin, is not here with us today, but if you haven’t gathered his love of anime from this show then maybe you haven’t payed enough attention to the show. Finally we have...

All stories no matter the medium have patterns set within them. Joseph Campbell’s 1949 book, The Hero With A Thousand Faces, showcased just how universal storytelling is. In fact, the entire Star Wars saga is based, in part, on the teachings of that book. So what does that all entail? Well, mostly, the book detailed a sort of structure that had been apparent in storytelling for centuries, one ofte...

Sony showcased a bunch of new games with a special showcase on Thursday and the boys had a lot of thoughts on what we all saw, so what better a way to talk about all of those thoughts than with a special edition show for your entertainment? The second in two weeks! How neat! As always you can find us on social media for all things Culture Bop, Hunting Pixels, and the Culture Bop family of content....

Gamescom happened this week and with it we got a bunch of news and so we thought it would be a great time to do a news episode and talk about all of the stuff that happened at Gamescom as well as some other news that we’ve been simmering on for a while. On top of that Josh got to some media this week and the boys got in some games. As always you can find us on social media for all things Culture B...

The Pokemon Direct showcased more details about Shining Pearl, Brilliant Diamond, and Legends Arceus and of course that means that Dylan and Austin just had to talk about it! So the boys break down the event and give their thoughts on all of the games coming!!! So strap in and enjoy the fun time! As always you can find us on social media for all things Culture Bop, Hunting Pixels, and the Culture...

During the last several months there has been a weird little rabbit hole of the internet that I have been traveling down. The hole in question involves an unknown dutch developer known as Blue Box Game Studios and a project known as Abandoned. And as we discussed last week the internet did what the internet does and the entire thing began to morph and become something that it was never intended to...

During the last several months there has been a weird little rabbit hole of the internet that I have been traveling down. The hole in question involves an unknown dutch developer known as Blue Box Game Studios and a project known as Abandoned. Enter… well, the internet… and what started as a video game trailer appearing on youtube warped and became something much bigger. The prevailing theory of t...

On one of our previous episodes, we did something that was a little bit of fun where we sat down and crafted our own stable of studios from which we would create our own fictitious game publishing company. And on another episode we sort of crafted our own horror game from story to mechanics and then laid that out for everyone as a sort of Halloween present. Recently in our discord, one, Justin Rui...

It’s about that time again, we’ve been hard at work playing games and watching media for your entertainment and we’ve got so much to talk about that we wanted to sit back and grace you all with another catch up episode. We’ll be talking about all of the games we’ve played and all the media we’ve consumed over the past week, all for your entertainment! Loki contains spoiler talk lasting from 38:16...

Everyone has opinions. “Opinions are like assholes”, goes the famous quote. That said, some opinions are seen as controversial and by some people even flat out wrong. And today, we’re going to be expressing some of those opinions for your entertainment. As a full disclaimer, this topic is meant in good fun. We’re in no way saying that your opposing views may be wrong, more so that this is just how...

Well it's been a year and we didn't kill each other. Jokes aside, it was one year to the day one week ago that we sat down to record our very first episode of the show and we wanted to reminisce and talk about the year that we've had and potentially what's to come! We also sit and talk about a bunch of horror movies, some anime, and of course games. On top of all of that we have our picks of the w...

Hellooooo everyone!!! Welcome, welcome, welcome. It has been a while, BUT we are back with another entry in our special episode series. This is episode Six of our special episode series where we go really in depth on a topic. Today’s episode, as you may be well aware of if you’ve listened to our previous special edition episodes, will not run like our usual episodes. Instead we will be entirely fo...

As of today, our recording date, The year has just hit the halfway point and while we have several topics that we would love to get into, we thought it might be best to do a quick check in on what’s going on in the world of gaming. So we’ll cover several topics here, what we’ve thought of the year thus far, our reactions to some of the biggest stories in gaming, how we think the rest of the year w...

We’ve talked about games from the past many a time on this here podcast and it’s because we really love the games that we either grew up with or were formative experiences in our tastes. We’ve talked about our favorite games of all time and we’ve talked about games that we want to see return or even get remade. But what about games that are perfect as they are, but we want more? Well listeners, we...

E3 HAPPENED!!!! And we Talk about it. That's just about it.  As always you can find us on social media for all things Culture Bop, Hunting Pixels, and the Culture Bop family of content.   Culture Bop: Twitter - @Culture_Bop , Instagram - @culture_bop , Facebook - @TheCultureBop, Youtube - Culture Bop   Hunting Pixels: Twitter - @PixelsHunting, Instagram - @hunting_pixelscb   Josh: Twitter - @TheBe...

With Josh gone on vacation for the first time in forever, Dylan and Austin sat down to do a special episode all about their favorite topic, Pokemon. Over the course of two hours they sat and ranked their favorite pokemon games from least to most favorite and pontificated on what makes Pokemon such a great series. As always you can find us on social media for all things Culture Bop, Hunting Pixels,...

As everyone who has listened to this podcast will note, I am a pretentious film kid that loves TV and Film more than almost anything. Somewhere near the top of that list is video games. I’ve had arguments before, and I’m sure we’re about to have them again, about how storytelling between the two mediums differ. While I’m not the only one who feels this way, the two mediums draw from one another ov...

Things have been hectic for all of us for a good hot minute and things don’t seem to be changing for at least a couple of weeks. Dylan is out tonight and because we thought it would do him a disservice to continue on with our topic of the show we’ve decided to scrap that until next week and do a quick little catch up episode on everything that we’ve been playing and watching and doing since we las...

As of late, Xbox has been the media darling in terms of PR. They've been saying the rights things and doing the right things. Their main competitor in Sony Has been... Less so. But even with Sony being some sort of PR Disaster and Nintendo continuing to march to the beat of their own drum, you have to wonder, what state is Xbox really in? They have 23 studios without a whiff of a first party exclu...

Video games are known for a lot of different reasons. There’s the interactive storytelling. There’s gorgeous computer rendered graphics. There’s the various systems that coalesce into a fun gameplay loop. But perhaps the thing that has arguably defined video games in pop culture more than any other aspect has been a little thing called the Boss. Bosses and Boss battles are one of, if not, the most...

Remakes have been around for quite a while at this point. Whether it be developers and publishers trying to extract as much money as humanly possible from their product or a move to gauge interest in possible sequels or reboots, Video Game remakes have remained in vogue for quite some time. Most of these are ports or upresed remasters, but every now and then something comes along that makes you th...

It is absolutely no secret to anyone that listens to this show that we love a good Role Playing Game. Whether it be Austin’s gushing over Pokemon, my continued support of Final Fantasy, or even Dylan’s consistent love of The Witcher, it’s very clear that we care a lot about the genre. But one thing we have yet to do is dive deep into why that is. Why do we love the genre? What makes it so special?...

Videogames are an ever-evolving medium and we’re constantly finding new ways to play. Whether it be new streaming techs like Amazon Luna and Google Stadia or Virtual Reality coming from the likes of Valve’s HTC headsets or Sony’s Playstation VR. On top of that, there are constant innovations in tech that bring the scope of what video games can do into a massive new world. At the forefront of these...